The Ministry of Health recently released information about induced abortion in New Zealand for the year 2022. The data provided here is drawn from the Abortion Services Aotearoa New Zealand Annual Report 2023 and presents a concise overview of the…
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New Zealand’s Abortion Safe Areas: Know Where They Are and What You Can Do
New Zealand’s first abortion facility exclusion zones, otherwise known as “safe areas”, have been established and will come into force on Friday, 25 August. Six abortion centres have regulations prohibiting particular behaviours within a defined border surrounding their premises. These…
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8 practical and effective ways to respect and support human life
Finding practical and effective ways to respect and support human life from conception to natural death that is easily implemented, can be at times, tricky. However, with a little thought, lots of love, and a firm resolution to do something,…
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Life is God’s Gift
“I came that they may have life .,..” [Jn 10:10] When Saint John-Paul II coined the phrase “culture of death”[i] he was talking about how enculturated and embedded attacks against human life have become in our human societies. He was…
Rejoice and Work in the Post-Roe Present
The following guest article by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, President of Human Life International, is reprinted with permission. Praise God! What else can I say – can any of us say – in response to this incredible moment in U.S.…
Overturning of Roe welcomed
Family Life International warmly welcomes the momentous decision recognizing there is no right to abortion in the United States Constitution. The decision by the Supreme Court Justices overrules the 1973 decision, Roe v Wade, and Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992),…
Contraception or abortifacient?
A common assumption is that the use of contraception will lead to fewer abortions, not more. There are several reasons why this assumption is false. Here, we examine one such problem; how the twisting of language relating to the first…
Prenatal testing and the right to life
When the eminent Professor Jérôme Lejeune discovered the cause of Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) in 1959, he knew the information could be used for good or for evil. He had pursued the discovery with good intent, but the values of…
“Safe areas” have yet to be established outside abortion facilities
Application processes to implement “safe areas” are still under development according to the Ministry of Health. As such, not one exclusion zone has been established around New Zealand abortion facilities since the passing of the law in March. According to…
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First trimester abortion provision expands in the South
First trimester abortion has become available on the West Coast of New Zealand, putting pre-born children and their mothers in the region at greater risk of harm than previously. In a recent press release, the West Coast District Health Board…
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